Finally we are on to the aliens' plot! They've been holding still images in front of the Hubble lens for years, trying to keep us from seeing what's truly out there (namely: aliens and God's house). If it weren't for quantum theory we never would have figured it out. Those crafty, green devils!
"Because EFI has its own filing system that lives on a reserved part of the hard disk, it can become the standard home for a whole set of utilities that have always had an awkward fit with the BIOS: things like disk partitioners, multiple OS boot controllers, system backup and restore, will be natural EFI applications."
I can't say NO! enough times about the above 'feature'.
What happends when the disk crashes and you really need all those utilities? What happens when you format the disk and forget to create a special partition for the EFI? THIS IS WHAT SOLID STATE DRIVES ARE FOR!!! PUT ONE ON THE DAMN MOTHERBOARD! Really, do these people ever actually USE computers?
One of my friends used to have a Compaq desktop machine that required a special partition to be set up on the hard disk that contained BIOS extensions that allowed it to use disks over 8GB. Anyone can see how this was a pain in the ass when his hard disk crashed and we tried to put in a new one. I can't believe Intel is designing something that poses a similar ass-pain factor.
This material seems to work a lot like using an LED in reverse. (Yes, you can generate voltage/current by holding an LED near a light source or similar wavelength. Try this by measuring across a resistor tied to a red LED with a red laser pointer shining on it). I wonder if you'll be able to use this solar panel material 'in reverse' and light up the whole exterior of your house by applying appropriate voltage to the terminals =)
The top computer in the world is the Earth Simulator [jamstec.go.jp] in Japan.
And how does it compare with the next in line? It blows them away. Absolutely blows them away.
Thems fightin' words. I bet we could Slashdot it. Let's take its ego down a couple of notches.
Because, if you read the rest of the article, they will first implement these techniques on parts of cars like the side mirrors. You want your side mirrors to match your painted steel body panels, don't you? It never said that they weren't advancing their processes that have better finishes. In fact, they seemed to imply that their orginal processes already look better than painted steel. It only said that their current market demands that they match their product to where it will be used.
"November marked the seventh consecutive month in which Xbox console sell-through outpaced that of Nintendo GameCube."GameZone.com
This was also confirmed by the author of "Opening the Xbox" Amazon
who was interviewed on TechTV not too long ago who stated that total Xbox sales were significantly higher than the GC. BTW, the PS2 had an 18 month lead on Xbox and GC. A huge amount of time to build a game and player base.
The only way I can think that this thing will have so many games that people might actually want to play is if the machine is simply a repackaged PC, similar to an Xbox, only they have some sort of zany online PC game distribution service that downloads PC games directly to the device.
They may be able to offer slightly lower prices than boxed PC games due to volume and lack of packaging. This would also be a bandwidth nightmare. Maybe you'd order a few games and it would download them automagically over the course of a month.
The thing I hate the most about Realplayer is the message service that it installs by default, without the user's knowledge. A few days after installation a little text box appears over the taskbar telling you that you have a message. In W2K the only way short of uninstalling that I could find to remove the message service is to edit the registry keys for startup programs.
Older versions used to add the taskbar launcher app. and change file associations without giving an obvious choice which was also annoying. Real has always been my least favorite media application for these reasons. I'm glad other people find their software annoying also.
By now you should all see the market potential for Omnikleen's new line of MobileW1p3z(TM) and PortiPr0nchos(TM) soon to be available at a mall kiosk near you. This is your opportunity to 'kleen up on mobile technology!
I wasn't surprised when the AMD Athlon pulled out ahead of the Pentium 4, then fell very far behind.
Did I miss something? When did AMD fall "far behind"? Last I checked, the Athlon XP 2800 was pretty on-par with the P4 2.8 GHz even beating it out on many common benchmarks, for example... (Athlon XP 2800 is 550Mhz SLOWER than the P4. That was a whole computer 3 years ago!)
The prohibitive cost of P4's, especially the higher end ones, has pretty much kept AMD processors as the choice for home system builders. Any new super high GHz P4's aren't really in the picture for many people.
Granted, tough times for the industry have hit AMD hard and their development schedule has suffered. For the most part their delays have not been due to poor scaling of the processor core but to financial or manufacturing issues. The previous transition from Athlon to Athlon MP and XP was pretty seamless.
Also, both AMD and Intel have gone through multiple core revisions as the P4 and Athlon step up speed and performance. This pretty much takes revision history as evidence of poor foresight out of the equation also.
The Athlon was not engineered to ramp up well over 1 GHz.
What? That's exactly what it was designed for! The first Athlon, I believe, was either 500 or 600 MHz. This was the first generation which quickly gave way to 700-1000Mhz versions. With the introduction of copper interconnects and manufacturing processes for smaller transistors/dies the Athlon did pretty darn well up to speeds past 1.5GHz with regular introductions of new chips.
For a company that, up until the Athlon, was pretty much a laughable CPU designer it's a nice feat to keep up with Intel over a range of 1.5GHz on the same basic layout. Need I point out that this same speed range was encompassed by BOTH the P3 AND P4 while the Athlon remained pretty much the same? Perhaps you meant to say 2GHz? Well, time will tell on that one but partnerships with the right companies, like IBM and the introduction of the Hammer line will hopefully make the argument a moot point.
I am a systems engineer at the Raytheon Patriot Test Facility (we have everything but the missiles here) and I'd like to clear up some issues concerning popular beliefs about the system:
1. The Patriot system was not specifically designed to shoot down missiles. It is a mid-altitude SAM platform that happened to work well enough to even CONSIDER trying to hit missiles. It is designed for Air Breathing Targets (ABTs) such as planes/helicopters. It is still the only system that has ever shot down an incoming ballistic missile in actual combat.
2. There have been numerous upgrades to the system designed toward raising its effectiveness toward ballistic missiles including a deployment of a new software build during the Gulf War. The system is highly software upgradable by design.
3. The Patriot system now includes a new launcher and hit-to-kill missile which has been developed by Lockheed. This missile is specifically designed to take out incoming ballistic/cruise missiles. Although due to original design concepts it will probably never be as effective as systems such as Israel's Arrow for these targets.
All of this info is available at FAS.org
There are some very impressive stats listed here. Note that the missile hits Mach 1 about 20 feet from the launcher, with a top speed of Mach 5!
After the Gulf War many people heard that the earlier reports that Patriot missiles were blasting ballistic missiles out the the sky left and right over Israel and Saudi Arabia were untrue. This says more about the integrity of news reporting or US military misinformation than it does about any shortcomings of the Patriot system. The system is quite old now and is still an impressive feat of engineering if just for the radar alone. It was never really intended for the role it was touted for during the Gulf War.
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Finally we are on to the aliens' plot! They've been holding still images in front of the Hubble lens for years, trying to keep us from seeing what's truly out there (namely: aliens and God's house). If it weren't for quantum theory we never would have figured it out. Those crafty, green devils!
batch your weekly job
Is that some sort of euphemism? It sounds dirty and I certainly wouldn't want any part of it.
Evidence for the presence of the molecular building blocks for life comes from the yellow-brown stains seen on the ice by the Galileo probe.
Newer images reveal evidence that these stains may have been left after a recent pass of Pluto.
"Because EFI has its own filing system that lives on a reserved part of the hard disk, it can become the standard home for a whole set of utilities that have always had an awkward fit with the BIOS: things like disk partitioners, multiple OS boot controllers, system backup and restore, will be natural EFI applications."
I can't say NO! enough times about the above 'feature'.
What happends when the disk crashes and you really need all those utilities? What happens when you format the disk and forget to create a special partition for the EFI? THIS IS WHAT SOLID STATE DRIVES ARE FOR!!! PUT ONE ON THE DAMN MOTHERBOARD! Really, do these people ever actually USE computers?
One of my friends used to have a Compaq desktop machine that required a special partition to be set up on the hard disk that contained BIOS extensions that allowed it to use disks over 8GB. Anyone can see how this was a pain in the ass when his hard disk crashed and we tried to put in a new one. I can't believe Intel is designing something that poses a similar ass-pain factor.
This material seems to work a lot like using an LED in reverse. (Yes, you can generate voltage/current by holding an LED near a light source or similar wavelength. Try this by measuring across a resistor tied to a red LED with a red laser pointer shining on it). I wonder if you'll be able to use this solar panel material 'in reverse' and light up the whole exterior of your house by applying appropriate voltage to the terminals =)
The top computer in the world is the Earth Simulator [jamstec.go.jp] in Japan.
And how does it compare with the next in line? It blows them away. Absolutely blows them away.
Thems fightin' words. I bet we could Slashdot it. Let's take its ego down a couple of notches.
Because, if you read the rest of the article, they will first implement these techniques on parts of cars like the side mirrors. You want your side mirrors to match your painted steel body panels, don't you? It never said that they weren't advancing their processes that have better finishes. In fact, they seemed to imply that their orginal processes already look better than painted steel. It only said that their current market demands that they match their product to where it will be used.
Just not true:
"November marked the seventh consecutive month in which Xbox console sell-through outpaced that of Nintendo GameCube." GameZone.com
This was also confirmed by the author of "Opening the Xbox" Amazon who was interviewed on TechTV not too long ago who stated that total Xbox sales were significantly higher than the GC. BTW, the PS2 had an 18 month lead on Xbox and GC. A huge amount of time to build a game and player base.
Try supporting your "facts" next time.
Of course funding is being cut. They never should have let Pauly Shore into the first one to begin with.
The only way I can think that this thing will have so many games that people might actually want to play is if the machine is simply a repackaged PC, similar to an Xbox, only they have some sort of zany online PC game distribution service that downloads PC games directly to the device.
They may be able to offer slightly lower prices than boxed PC games due to volume and lack of packaging. This would also be a bandwidth nightmare. Maybe you'd order a few games and it would download them automagically over the course of a month.
What a stupid idea. Of course, I could be wrong.
The thing I hate the most about Realplayer is the message service that it installs by default, without the user's knowledge. A few days after installation a little text box appears over the taskbar telling you that you have a message. In W2K the only way short of uninstalling that I could find to remove the message service is to edit the registry keys for startup programs.
Older versions used to add the taskbar launcher app. and change file associations without giving an obvious choice which was also annoying. Real has always been my least favorite media application for these reasons. I'm glad other people find their software annoying also.
By now you should all see the market potential for Omnikleen's new line of MobileW1p3z(TM) and PortiPr0nchos(TM) soon to be available at a mall kiosk near you. This is your opportunity to 'kleen up on mobile technology!
Patent pending, Patent pending, Patent pending!
I wasn't surprised when the AMD Athlon pulled out ahead of the Pentium 4, then fell very far behind.
Did I miss something? When did AMD fall "far behind"? Last I checked, the Athlon XP 2800 was pretty on-par with the P4 2.8 GHz even beating it out on many common benchmarks, for example... (Athlon XP 2800 is 550Mhz SLOWER than the P4. That was a whole computer 3 years ago!)
The prohibitive cost of P4's, especially the higher end ones, has pretty much kept AMD processors as the choice for home system builders. Any new super high GHz P4's aren't really in the picture for many people.
Granted, tough times for the industry have hit AMD hard and their development schedule has suffered. For the most part their delays have not been due to poor scaling of the processor core but to financial or manufacturing issues. The previous transition from Athlon to Athlon MP and XP was pretty seamless.
Also, both AMD and Intel have gone through multiple core revisions as the P4 and Athlon step up speed and performance. This pretty much takes revision history as evidence of poor foresight out of the equation also.
The Athlon was not engineered to ramp up well over 1 GHz.
What? That's exactly what it was designed for! The first Athlon, I believe, was either 500 or 600 MHz. This was the first generation which quickly gave way to 700-1000Mhz versions. With the introduction of copper interconnects and manufacturing processes for smaller transistors/dies the Athlon did pretty darn well up to speeds past 1.5GHz with regular introductions of new chips.
For a company that, up until the Athlon, was pretty much a laughable CPU designer it's a nice feat to keep up with Intel over a range of 1.5GHz on the same basic layout. Need I point out that this same speed range was encompassed by BOTH the P3 AND P4 while the Athlon remained pretty much the same? Perhaps you meant to say 2GHz? Well, time will tell on that one but partnerships with the right companies, like IBM and the introduction of the Hammer line will hopefully make the argument a moot point.
And what would happen if you scanned a live animal? Would the copy you create live?
I'm pretty sure this is what they mean by a "crime against nature".
Seems like, until the technology can scan instantaneously at practically infinite resolution, all you'd get is a big mess.
I am a systems engineer at the Raytheon Patriot Test Facility (we have everything but the missiles here) and I'd like to clear up some issues concerning popular beliefs about the system:
1. The Patriot system was not specifically designed to shoot down missiles. It is a mid-altitude SAM platform that happened to work well enough to even CONSIDER trying to hit missiles. It is designed for Air Breathing Targets (ABTs) such as planes/helicopters. It is still the only system that has ever shot down an incoming ballistic missile in actual combat.
2. There have been numerous upgrades to the system designed toward raising its effectiveness toward ballistic missiles including a deployment of a new software build during the Gulf War. The system is highly software upgradable by design.
3. The Patriot system now includes a new launcher and hit-to-kill missile which has been developed by Lockheed. This missile is specifically designed to take out incoming ballistic/cruise missiles. Although due to original design concepts it will probably never be as effective as systems such as Israel's Arrow for these targets.
All of this info is available at FAS.org There are some very impressive stats listed here. Note that the missile hits Mach 1 about 20 feet from the launcher, with a top speed of Mach 5!
After the Gulf War many people heard that the earlier reports that Patriot missiles were blasting ballistic missiles out the the sky left and right over Israel and Saudi Arabia were untrue. This says more about the integrity of news reporting or US military misinformation than it does about any shortcomings of the Patriot system. The system is quite old now and is still an impressive feat of engineering if just for the radar alone. It was never really intended for the role it was touted for during the Gulf War.
Just wanted to offer some clarification =)